Join In: The People v. the Pipeline

Join us for a live Twitter chat at 8 p.m. EST with YES! executive editor Sarah van Gelder, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and others on the controversial tar sands pipeline and the mass civil disobedience kicking off next week to fight it.

And as you also know, our democracy is increasingly controlled by special interests interested only in their short-term profit.

These two trends collide this summer in Washington, where the State
Department and the White House have to decide whether to grant a
certificate of ‘national interest’ to some of the biggest fossil fuel
players on earth. These corporations want to build the so-called Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada’s tar sands to Texas refineries.

First things first, if you haven’t yet signed up on Twitter — now would be a perfect moment to grab your account.

The way “Twitter chats” work is that people connect by using and following a specific “hashtag.”
We’ll be using the “#noKXL” hashtag. A hashtag is simply a special
keyword (often preceded by a # symbol) that you add to your tweet, which
lets people know you’re responding to a particular conversation or
issue and connects you with others around topics of common interest.

So, for example, a sample tweet to join this chat could be: “Hi, my
name’s Paul, I’m tweeting from Utah, and can’t wait to connect with
everyone who wants to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. #noKXL” (note the
hashtag inserted at the end)

The basic format will be a round of introductions, followed by a
series of questions posed by the community for the special guests, which
they and all are welcome to discuss. So, please, prepare a few
interesting questions!

Canada-to-Texas Pipeline Plans Draw CriticismActivists and residents along the 2,000-mile proposed route fear damage
to farming, ecosystems, and water from the transport of what has been
called the world's dirtiest source of transportation energy.